" So might it be said
of Harland and Wolff. They have given Belfast not only a potency
for good, but a world-wide reputation. Their energies overflow.
Mr. Harland is the active and ever-prudent Chairman of the most
important of the local boards, the Harbour Trust of Belfast, and
exerts himself to promote the extension of the harbour facilities
of the port as if the benefits were to be exclusively his own;
while Mr. Wolff is the Chairman of one of the latest born
industries of the place, the Belfast Rope-work Company, which
already gives employment to over 600 persons.
This last-mentioned industry is only about six years old. The
works occupy over seven acres of ground, more than six acres of
which are under roofing. Although the whole of the raw material
is imported from abroad from Russia, the Philippine Islands, New
Zealand, and Central America--it is exported again in a
manufactured state to all parts of the world.
Such is the contagion of example, and such the ever-branching
industries with which men of enterprise and industry can enrich
and bless their country. The following brief memoir of the
career of Mr. Harland has been furnished at my solicitation; and
I think that it will be found full of interest as well as
instruction.
Footnotes for Chapter X.
[1] Report in the Cork Examiner, 5th July, 1883.
[2] In 1883, as compared with 1882, there was a decrease of
58,022 acres in the land devoted to the growth of wheat; there
was a total decrease of 114,871 acres in the land under
tillage.
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